Destruction in Kobe (2025)

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Destruction in Kobe
Destruction in Kobe 2025 Poster.jpg
Promotional poster featuring Hiroshi Tanahashi
Promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling
DateSeptember 28, 2025
City Kobe, Japan
Venue Kobe World Memorial Hall
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Destruction in Kobe (2025) is an upcoming professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and will take place at Kobe World Memorial Hall in Kobe, Japan on September 28, 2025. It will be the twenty-seventh event in the Destruction chronology.

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Production

Storylines

Destruction in Kobe will feature professional wrestling matches that will involve different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches. [1]

Matches

No.Matches*Stipulations
1 Shota Umino, Yuya Uemura and Yoshi-Hashi vs. House of Torture (Evil, Sanada and Dick Togo) Six-man tag team match [2]
2 Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Great-O-Khan Singles match [3]
3 Boltin Oleg (c) vs. Don Fale Singles match for the NEVER Openweight Championship [2]
4 Taichi and Tomohiro Ishii (c) vs. Knock Out Brothers (Oskar and Yuto-Ice) Tag team match for the IWGP Tag Team Championship [3]
5 Hiromu Takahashi vs. Taiji Ishimori Singles match [3]
6 David Finlay vs. Yota Tsuji Singles match [3]
7 Gabe Kidd (c) vs. Shingo Takagi Singles match for the IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship [3]
8 Zack Sabre Jr. (c) vs. Ren Narita Singles match for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship [4]
(c) – the champion(s) heading into the match
*Card subject to change

References

  1. Grabianowski, Ed (13 January 2006). "How Pro Wrestling Works". HowStuffWorks, Inc. Discovery Communications . Retrieved October 9, 2017.
  2. 1 2 "Destruction In Kobe 2025". New Japan Pro-Wrestling . September 2, 2025.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Carey, Ian (September 2, 2025). "NJPW announces matches for Destruction in Kobe, other September shows". Wrestling Observer Newsletter .
  4. Lambert, Jeremy (September 2, 2025). "Zack Sabre Jr To Defend IWGP World Heavyweight Title Against Ren Narita At NJPW Destruction In Kobe". Fightful.